MAFIAA Fire and defense of the indefensible

A simple program was enough, a person who taught herself to develop plugins in a few days , to expose the patent stupidity of the American strategy to protect copyright unsustainable through kidnapping industry domains.

Events such as vBulletin and many others show the intentions of the U.S. administration to develop a sort of censor body that acts as a so-called "universal justice", closing pages in accordance with the interests of a dysfunctional industry, unable to survive independently in the current technological scenario, prey ever more obvious contradictions and untenable.

Fire MAFIAA (MAFIAA corresponds to the initials of "Music And Film Industry Association of America") is a plugin for Firefox and for Chrome that offers a redirection from the domains hijacked by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to others in which decide to relocate these tools, even to pre-book alternative domains based on each new kidnapping carried out by ICE. A simple solution that makes useless the efforts of the U.S. administration: users can continue typing the domain quietly remember that your browser will take care of bringing the new domain that the page continues to offer its services conveniently updated.

"The reaction of the Department of Homeland Security to see the plugin? Following your twisted logic, have wanted to attack the root problem pushing the Mozilla Foundation to withdraw the plug from the repository , which has caused the expected reaction by anyone who knows the network and have half a brain: the news has become much more interesting, was immediately picked up by popular sites like ArsTechnica , ReadWriteWeb and many others , and the popularity of the supplement has suddenly escalated to exceed forty thousand downloads. In addition, Harvey Anderson from the Mozilla Foundation, has responded to the request from DHS asking the right questions:

• Given the absence of court order accompanying the petition, have you given any judicial court MAFIAA Fire is in any way unlawful or illegal? If it was, "based on what? (Please join for judgments)
• Is Mozilla a legal obligation to disable the supplement, or is your request based on other reasons? If due to other reasons, please specify that.
• Could you please send a copy of the arrest order for on which to base their request for withdrawal of Fire MAFIAA add to Mozilla?

For now, have not received a response from DHS or any other department or court. What does this prove? Simply that the copyright lobby is through the facilities of the State, regardless of the current legislation, do everything that promotes its economic interests. Nothing we did not know, but now is even more clear and obvious. At some point, someone has to stand up and say this is simply unsustainable and ridiculous as well as to be useless. That makes no sense to involve a department dedicated to nothing less than national security or one that is responsible for immigration and customs in such matters, which is absurd and ridiculous, besides being a mafia openly behavior. What will happen if the DHS manages to remove the Mozilla repository supplement? Simply, this plugin will move much more, much more actively, through other channels. It is what it is. The network is unstoppable. Your business unsustainable.